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Component 2: Human Interactions - Changing Spaces; Making Places
Quick questions on Place studies: investigating a local and a distant place - OCR A-Level Geography
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What is the place-study requirement?Show answer
The two-place design is deliberate. The local place is studied largely through direct, lived experience and primary observation, giving an insider's depth, while the distant place is studied mainly through secondary and media sources, giving an outsider's, representation-led view. Comparing them tests the core concepts of the topic in action: place and space, insider and outsider perspectives, endogenous and exogenous factors, and the processes of change. The aim is not to learn two places by rote but to demonstrate how a geographer investigates character, experience and change from evidence.
What is q1?Show answer
Give one quantitative and one qualitative source useful for a place study. [2 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
Explain one limitation of using census data to study how a place has changed. [3 marks]
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